WhatsApp DOWN: Users complain popular chat app is not working in UK, parts of Europe
WHATSAPP is DOWN for parts of Europe, with UK users flooding social media to complain the Facebook-owned chat app is not working.
WhatsApp appears to be down across the UK and Europe tonight
WhatsApp appears to be down across the UK and Europe tonight – just hours after news of this WhatsApp scam emerged.
Messenger users have complained on social media that they are unable to send or receive messages.
The latest outage comes just four days after the Facebook-owned chat app went down in Europe.
Independent website DownDetector.uk, which detects "when services go down or have outages", has reported a spike in the number of people complaining about outages for WhatsApp.
Hundreds of users have reported problems connecting to the service, sending and receiving messages.
WhatsApp letting me down tonight damn ??????
— khaleesi (@lovelyluisette) May 23, 2016
Experiencing mild panic because #WhatsApp appears to be down. ??
— Jen Fritz (@jen_fritz) May 23, 2016
Wtf is wrong with whatsapp?
— qureshiqureshiquresh (@Sameed_Qureshi) May 23, 2016
Down every other day now. :/
One Twitter fan said: "Will whatsapp refund me for being down"
Another added: "#WhatsApp is down how will I communicate"
WhatsApp, the world's most popular chat app, suffered a number of outages on the busiest night of the year – New Years Eve.
The cross-platform messenger allows users to send text, video and audio messages around the world over an internet connection.
DownDetector.uk plotted the reported outages, which appeared across the UK and Europe
The free messenger, which was previously offered on a yearly subscription plan of 69p, also offers Voice over IP calling, group chats and more.
WhatsApp bought by Facebook for an eye-watering $19billion (£13billion) in February 2014.
Facebook also owns the second most successful mobile messaging app – its own Facebook Messenger.
Facebook recently announced that for the first time ever that one billion people accessed Facebook on the same day.
That works out at a staggering one in every seven people on Earth logging in and using the US social service.